Free Route Planner for Multiple Stops
Paste your stops and get the order to drive them in. Up to 15 stops, opened straight in Google Maps. No sign-up.
Working out the best order
Every stop is measured against every other one, so give it a moment.
Drive them in this order
Leg by leg
| # | From | To | Distance | Travel time |
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- Free, no sign-up
- Up to 15 stops, ordered for you
- Opens straight in Google Maps
- Round trips in one click
How it works
Three steps, and the first one is usually a paste.
Paste your stops
A starting point, an ending point, and up to 15 stops in between. Addresses, cities, postcodes, landmarks or coordinates all work, in any order.
Let it sort them
The stops get reordered to cut the total driving, using Google's own routing with live traffic fed into the decision rather than added afterwards.
Drive it or export it
Read the order on screen, open the whole route in Google Maps for turn by turn directions, or download the legs as a CSV.
Who plans routes like this
Anyone with a list of places and one day to get round them all.
Delivery drivers
Paste the day's drops, get the order that saves the most fuel and time, and open it in Google Maps for turn by turn directions.
Sales reps on the road
Fit more meetings into a day by cutting the driving between them, instead of visiting clients in whatever order they were booked.
Road trips
Several towns or landmarks on the list and no obvious order? Let it work out the sequence that stops you doubling back on yourself.
Field service teams
Order a technician's calls before the van leaves, and get more appointments into the day without adding hours to it.
How the ordering is worked out
Google Routes API does the measuring, with waypoint optimisation switched on.
The shortest way round
This is the travelling salesman problem, and it is solved for you: the stops are reordered so the total journey is as short as it can be, with your start and end held in place.
Traffic changes the answer
With live traffic on, current conditions are part of the ordering rather than a note added afterwards, so a jam can genuinely change which stop comes next.
Real roads, not straight lines
Every leg follows actual roads, one-way streets and turn restrictions included, which is why the order can differ from what looks right on a map.
Straight into Maps
One click hands the finished order to Google Maps with every stop in place, ready for turn by turn directions or to send to your phone.
Google Maps or this planner?
Maps is better once you know the order. This page is for working out what the order should be.
| Google Maps | This planner | |
|---|---|---|
| Stops | 10, start and end included | 17, a start plus 15 stops plus an end |
| Working out the order | You drag them by hand | Done for you, shortest first |
| Live traffic | Shown on the map | Part of the ordering itself |
| Round trip | Add the start again at the end | One switch |
| Export | Not available | CSV with every leg |
| Turn by turn | Built in | One click, straight into Maps |
| Price | Free | Free, no sign-up |
Frequently asked questions
The questions that come up most often.
Put in where you start, where you finish, and every stop in between in whatever order they come to mind. Press Optimize route and the stops are reordered so the whole journey is as short as it can be. What comes back is the sequence to actually drive.
It takes up to 10 points including the start and end, but it will not put them in order for you. You drag them around until it looks right. This page takes 15 stops between a start and an end, and works the order out itself.
It uses the Google Routes API with waypoint optimisation switched on, which solves a version of the travelling salesman problem: of all the ways to visit your stops, find the one with the least total driving. Your start and end stay where you put them. With live traffic on, current conditions are part of that calculation.
Free, and no. No account, no sign-up, no card. You get 3 route optimisations a day, each with up to 15 stops.
15 stops between your start and end, so 17 points in total. For more than that, or for planning every day without a limit, the Excel Route Planner handles 25 stops inside your own workbook.
Full street addresses, city names, postcodes, landmarks, or latitude and longitude. Mix them freely: "Eiffel Tower" and "48.8584, 2.2945" both work, in the same list.
Yes. Switch on "Return to the start" and the ending point matches your starting point automatically. The stops in between are still put in the best order.
Yes. Open in Google Maps hands the whole thing over with every stop already in the right order, so you can get turn by turn directions or send it to your phone.
The Google Routes API, the same routing data behind Google Maps, which is why the distances follow real roads rather than straight lines.
No. They go to Google to work out the route and are not kept on our servers. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is saved.
Three a day is generous for the occasional trip and thin for a daily round. The Excel Route Planner does the same job in your own workbook with 25 stops and no daily limit, which is what most delivery and field teams end up on.
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